Governance

In formal terms ARCPOH is organisationally a component of The University of Adelaide and its Director, like the heads of departments, other centres and academic units in the University, is responsible through the Dean of the School of Dentistry and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences to the Vice-Chancellor and Council.

The two component units of ARCPOH are responsible to their respective stakeholders. Through the Director of DPERU there is a responsibility to Colgate Oral Care, and through the Director and Deputy Director of DSRU there is a responsibility to the Director and Board of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

However, ARCPOH is intended to play an important national role and the University therefore is guided in its management by an Expert Advisory Committee that has the best possible appreciation of the state of population oral health research and major public policy issues that might be informed by that research.

Expert Advisory Committee

Membership

• Vice-Chancellor of The University of Adelaide or nominee (Convener) (Professor Andrew Somogyi, Professor Johann de Vries)
• Director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare or nominee (Ms Julie Roediger)
• Nominee of Colgate Oral Care, Colgate Palmolive Australia (Dr Barbara Shearer)
• Nominee of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (Mr Francis Wiechec)
• Nominee of the South Australian Department of Health (Mr Bruce Whitby)
• Nominee of The University of Adelaide Department of Public Health (Prof. Janet Hiller)
• Nominee of State and Territory Dental Services (Dr Peter Jarman)
• Nominee of the Universities of Melbourne, Otago and Sydney (Prof. Mike Morgan)
• Community representative nominated by the Australian Council of Social Services (Mr Gregor Macfie)
• The Director and Deputy Director of ARCPOH (Prof. John Spencer and Prof. Gary Slade)
• Other representatives of the staff of ARCPOH (Dr Kaye Roberts‑Thomson, Dr David Brennan)
• Such other persons having expertise in public health including oral public health as may be thought desirable, including in the first instance a nominee of the Australian Dental Association (Dr Karin Alexander)
• Discipline expert (Dr Clive Wright)
• Discipline expert (Associate Professor Bruce Hollingsworth)
• Expert in a related discipline (Professor Brian Oldenburg).
  

Functions

To advise The University of Adelaide, the Director of ARCPOH and, where appropriate, collaborating organisations on:

• the important research questions in population oral health that could beneficially be addressed by ARCPOH, and the relative priority of those issues;
• in the light of 1), the formulation and regular updating of an appropriate strategic plan for the research program of ARCPOH;
• operational planning for the research program of ARCPOH that encompasses collaboration and cooperation between relevant organisations, and the avenues through which resources can be found to support the program;
• means by which the outcomes of the Centre’s research can be disseminated to inform public policy and professional practice; and
• within the research program, the development and enhancement of the Centre’s postgraduate research training activities.